Five years later than planned, billions of dollars over budget and despite multiple attempts to kill it, the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter is finally beginning its operational use with the U.S. Marine Corps.

When maintenance managers gather and the talk turns to their work woes, the subject of rules and regulations inevitably comes to the fore. It seems as though technicians spend more effort complying with precautions than turning wrenches....More

Years ago, pilots were a bit self-deluding when it came to wind shear. Many didn’t even recognize it as a problem and chalked up the occasional loss of an airplane to pilots who didn’t quite have what it takes. However, that changed on June 24, 1975, when wind shear brought down Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727, during an approach to New York’s JFK International Airport. Six crew and 106 passengers were killed....More

Dubai International Airport plans to begin using a camera-based foreign object debris (FOD) detection system early in 2016 to help the operators more quickly identify and remove debris from runway areas, eliminating a persistent safety problem....More

The German airline Lufthansa ranks 2nd in largest fleet in Western Europe in 2015 and offers domestic and international destinations to 78 countries throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. In the last decade, Lufthansa retired the Airbus A300B4-600, A300B4-600R and the Airbus A330-200 from its fleet. Its new aircraft purchases included adding the Airbus A380-800 and the Boeing 747-8....More

Blogs & Opinion

The British Royal Air Force and Indian Air Force have hailed the success of a major exercise which saw the deployment of four Sukhoi Su-30MKI ‘Flankers’ to the U.K. to fly with and fight against the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoon....More

It has taken unusually long for the first piece of wreckage to be discovered – that is if an aircraft part found on La Réunion island can be traced back to 9M-MRO, the Boeing 777-200ER that operated Malaysia Airlines flight 370....More

To mark the milestone of Boeing's centenary in 2016, Russ Banham has written ‘Higher: 100 Years of Boeing’ – a lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched overview of the aerospace giant’s first century....More

Two 727-​200's cost less than one Airbus. That was the claim made by Boeing, which placed this ad in Aviation Week & Space Technology in 1972 promoting the cost and performance advantages of the tri-jet....More

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